Tim Curley

Laura Ditka enjoys a reputation in her home state of Pennsylvania as a dogged and determined prosecutor that would surprise nobody in Chicago familiar with her last name — which is almost everybody.

But even more than a litigator who hates to lose, Mike Ditka's niece always viewed the Penn State child sexual abuse case under her care through the eyes of a mother.

"This case has been a tragedy for almost everyone involved, but it wasn't about football or egos," Ditka said in an interview with the Tribune. "This was about the vulnerability of children and the fact that we tend to deitize people, make heroes out of them, and sometimes in doing so we don't pay...

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